Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

Post by walshemj » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

mdip wrote: post #81

First: Kudos. That is easily the coolest thing I've seen this month. Everything "felt" like a fancy over-done BBS of the early 90s in the way that the page loaded slowly, but I'm curious why you chose the second swipe of the cursor over the screen. I don't remember my PC from 8088-80386 ever doing that. Am I misremembering and was this in reference to some platform from the 80s that I didn't use?

Post by robert_tweed » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #33

robert_tweed wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's actually EGA, but it's definitely not CGA. CGA only supports 4 colours and you can tell immediately from the dark blue that it's not CGA, because that's not one of the 4. There are also at least 5 colours shown, all of which happen to be from the standard EGA palette. VGA generally used the same text modes as EGA and very few people actually had an EGA, so referring to it as a VGA mode is an understandab…

> CGA only supports 4 colours In graphics modes. In text mode it supported 16 IIRC: black, white, two greys and two shades of 6 colours.

Post by kristopolous » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 7:15 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #53

busterarm wrote: post #40

This put such a huge smile on my face. I was having a shit day, but now it's awesome. Thank you! P.S. I will go build like 9 websites using this immediately.

Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?

    img {
     display: none;
     -webkit-filter: contrast(800%);
     -moz-filter: contrast(1000%);
     filter: contrast(1000%);
     -o-filter: contrast(800%);
     -ms-filter: contrast(800%);
    }

Post by johansch » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 7:48 PM UTC

robert_tweed wrote: post #84

dspillett wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> CGA only supports 4 colours In graphics modes. In text mode it supported 16 IIRC: black, white, two greys and two shades of 6 colours.

You're right. I just looked it up, it seems I misremembered the CGA/EGA palette specs. I'm pretty sure this is based on the standard EGA/VGA font, which is 8x14 pixels, whereas CGA only supported 8x8. Characters like A, N and M look noticeably more pixellated around the diagonals in CGA mode. This is very much the one everyone would recognise from the VGA era, although it's actually an EGA mode.

Post by err4nt » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 9:06 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #85

Author here. I had no idea this was posted until I just rolled out of bed. Feel free to ask any questions here or hit me up on gchat/skype/aim/facebook/yahoo with the same username as here if that's more comfortable for you. There's also the standard issue tracker and mailing list. Thanks!